Our Team
Board of Trustees
Charlie Harcourt, Executive Director
Currently, Charlie is the Associate Director of Graduate and International Programs at Cazenovia College near Syracuse, NY. Previously, he recruited and supported international students throughout the admission, immigration, and matriculation process as the International Recruitment and Operations Coordinator at Wells College in Aurora, NY.
He has significant experience in working with international students from developing countries and recruiting in emerging markets. He serves in a leadership role focused on engaging recruitment agents and member institutions with the American International Recruitment Council (AIRC).
He first visited Myanmar for two months in 2016 to complete graduate research focused on study abroad opportunities for students from an emerging nation. He has had the opportunity to return twice since then to work with students interested in pursuing higher education in the US.
Tim Clark, Treasurer
Tim Clark is a retired journalist and market researcher based in Silicon Valley. He was bit by the Burma bug on a 2009 trip to the country and subsequently co-led five civil society tours to Myanmar that also hit the main tourist attractions.
On each trip, students of the Pre-Collegiate Program served as Yangon guides for the visitors and a crucial part of the cultural connection. Tim and his wife Mia have hosted many P-CP graduates at their home while those students studied in the U.S. He currently serves as treasurer of the Foundation and previously as executive director.
Jason Leong Campbell
Jason is a financial analyst based in Portland, Oregon. He is an alumnus of the Pre-Collegiate Program, class of 2010 and studied Economics at Reed College afterwards.
His favorite classes and experiences during the Pre-Collegiate Program were social studies and the trips to Bagan as well as Kalaw and nearby villages in Northeastern Burma.
Scot Marciel
Scot Marciel is Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, affiliated with the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
A career Foreign Service Officer, he most recently served as the U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar from March 2016 through May 2020. Prior to his assignment in Myanmar, Ambassador Marciel was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asia and the Pacific at the State Department, where he oversaw U.S. relations with Southeast Asia. From 2010 to 2013, Scot Marciel was U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country. Before that, he served concurrently as the first U.S. Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Southeast Asia from 2007 to 2010.
Scot has more than 35 years of experience as a diplomat in Asia and around the world. In addition to the assignments noted above, he has worked at U.S. missions in Turkey, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Brazil and the Philippines. At the State Department, he served as Director of the Office of Maritime Southeast Asia, Director of the Office of Mainland Southeast Asia, and Director of the Office of Southern European Affairs.
Peter Sang
Peter Chan Min Sang is a high-school ESL teacher in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Peter first came to Minnesota in 2013 to study at Carleton College.
A graduate of the Pre-Collegiate Program (PCP), Peter taught Sociology at PCP right after his undergraduate studies. He moved back to Minnesota in 2018 to join an M.Ed program at University of Minnesota, and soon afterwards married his wife Zara, who teaches middle-school Language Arts.
In his current teaching position, Peter works with many Karen/Kayin students who grew up in refugee camps in Thai-Burma border. He is excited to use his experience as a PCP alum and an educator to help other young people from Burma get the same educational opportunities as he did.
Penny Stroud
Penny has been on the MFAE board since 2018. She has had an interest in Myanmar for decades and was drawn to the PCP model of educating future leaders.
She has a particular interest in developing countries, environmental protection and sustainability. As an entrepreneur and business consultant, her goal for the board and the school is to develop a sustainable business model and active involvement of local/regional Myanmar constituents.